Melinda C. Frank v. Howard R. Relin, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Monroe County District Attorney

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that courts give leeway in reading under which capacity a governmental defendant is sued
• reversing grant of summary judgment for defendants where motivation for firing \clearly involved disputed questions of fact\
• reversing grant of summary judgment for defendants where motivation for firing “clearly involved disputed questions of fact”
• reversing grant of summary judgment for defendants where decision to fire “clearly involved disputed questions of fact”
• looking beyond the “doctrinal confusion displayed by [plaintiff’s] memorandum” and focusing on plaintiff’s arguments to determine whether plaintiff should be given opportunity to pursue official-capacity claim
• “the real party in interest in an official capacity suit is the governmental entity and not the named official”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).